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Historical fiction is the thinking man's genre of choice. Prove me wrong.
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>>9586458
historical fiction is for the bourgeois because it satisfies two criteria: 1. it was about something "real" and provides "information" and "facts". It is not a waste of time like art fiction and its goals are clearly demarcated (unlike art fiction). 2. It is a pleasurable way of digesting history, unlike those BIG books you see at Barnes and Noble (not to mention the dusty tomes of those isolated history professors). Now you can add historical knowledge while also being entertained! what fun! Now I can brag about reading a book too! (Insert person's name) may have watched the documentary on the History channel, but I've read the book...damn bastard
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What are your favourites?
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>>9586484
>unironically talking about the bourgeois
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What are your thoughts on Story of the Eye?
I liked the repeated themes of eyes/eggs and urine/milk/tears/semen, but the whole story kind of felt pointless. I don't understand *why* he would write it. Any thoughts?
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>>9586342
why should anyone write anything?
are you looking for a moral to the story?
do you think authors need to be making a "point"?
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it was pretty hot, i jerked off to the first orgy where they locked that one girl in a cupboard
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>>9586358
Meh, that was weird and it involved vomit iirc. Although the asylum scene or whatever it was where one of the characters suddenly gets naked while sneaking around got to me.
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Where do you download books from, /lit/?
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>>9586283
>download books
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leeb jenn
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Charity shops.
You sound like a pleb
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Explain what this book means without using "God", "The Devil", "Christ", "Good & Evil or Good Vs Evil", "Lord of the Rings (or any names from that series)".
Only then will I know if you're an idiot or not.
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Stephen Marketing
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Smug, affected, cheap, Joseph Campbell
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/lit/ sucks
Which translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey should one read?
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>>9585893
Lattimore
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>>9585893
Fitzgerald
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>>9585893
Imagine Dragons
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Is Gene Wolf genuinely considered one of literature's greats? What's so appealing about his work?
I'm not much of a genre fiction guy myself but I'm curious as to why he's so well respected here, plus if there's any worthwhile recommendations I should check out, I'd be very willing to give them a go.
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his prose and characterisation and plotting are BORING
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>>9585784
you best be believin' in memes
you're in ONE
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>>9585784
*Gene Wolfe
Book of the New Sun is a worthwhile read.
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currently reading pic related
for anyone who's read this, what are your thoughts on Mr. Gaiman's interpretation of the Norse myths?
myth general thread
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>>9585729
>your thoughts on Mr. Gaiman's interpretation of the Norse myths?
childish, for schoolkids
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>>9585729
>Neil (((Gaiman's))) family is of Polish-Jewish and other Eastern European-Jewish origins;[10] his great-grandfather emigrated from Antwerp, Belgium, to the UK before 1914[11] and his grandfather eventually settled in the south of England in the Hampshire city of Portsmouth and established a chain of grocery stores. His father, David Bernard (((Gaiman))), worked in the same chain of stores;[12] his mother, Sheila Gaiman (née Goldman), was a pharmacist.
PUMPKIN BTFO LMAO
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>>9585729
I was curious about it, OP. How is it so far? (I genuinely like Neil Gaiman btw)
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Without the dust-jacket:
>looks elegant and refined
>a timeless object of aesthetic perfection
With the dust-jacket:
>looks like a tawdry advertisement from a 1930's magazine, or a children's adventure book
>worth $100,000 more
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looks better with the jacket desu senpai
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>>9585652
Thane of glamis: no dust jacket
Thane of cawdor: dust jacket
King of Scotland: dust jacket with plastic and tape
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>>9585652
>why dont people like things the way I like
This is why your friends ignore you
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Name one major poet over the entire western canon that wasn't at least bilingual.
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Yeats
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>>9585604
whitman
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Defensive Intellectual Prose and Lacan
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Hey /lit/,
I've recently been pondering a conversation I had with a friend who claimed that I had defensively intellectual prose that was not only difficult to follow, but at times reductive and over-embellished. I've considered this habit of mine to be a result of the insessant anxiety to prove myself as cabable and "smart enough" that finds itself in my childhood, as I was one of the many kids with "ADHD" that was required to stay in special education classes. I believe that because of this I have a deeply rooted anxious compulsion to prove myself as intellectually capable if not superior to those that wish to debate and/or enact discourse with me. I've since "graduated" from special education a long time ago (about 18 years) but still find hyperactive tendencies in the way I learn and create/consume knowledge; this also effects my ability to relate and converse with others. Does anyone have any tips on how to mitigate these kinds of anxieties as well as "simplify" academic writing that deals with highly complex concepts and themes?
Additionally, if the concern written above is irrelevant and/or uninteresting, what's your opinion of Jacques Lacan? Love him? Hate him? Feel ambivalent about him? I've really enjoyed getting to know his work in the past years, but most of those I converse with that have likeminded interests in literature/philosophy despise his structuralist tenets. Additionally and perhaps coincidently, I know he his disliked for his notoriously "difficult" prose.
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weak b8 m8
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>>9585535
Discuss/deb8, don't h8 m8.
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>>9585514
The real achievement is to communicate thought in a clear, condensed matter. There is great beauty in reductionism
define fanfiction in an accurate way that doesn't apply to Paradise Lost
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*Paradife Loft
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>>9585448
Paradiſe Loſt
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>>9585447
fanfiction look like this: https://twitter.com/fanfiction_txt
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I just finished the Crying Lot of 49 and enjoyed the 4chanesque paranoia of it. Any other books that delve into general insanity and conspiracy theory?
>Pic-related: What's Macbog's end game? Gimme a quick rundown
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>>9585286
He used to work as a bank employee for Rothschild. He's been pushed as some kind of young and hip revolutionary by the medias but his ideas are based on neo-liberalism of the worst kind. He's been introduced to the political power by cunning old bastards like Alain Minc and Jacques Attali - a guy who used to give direct advice on economical and social issues to Mitterand, Sarkozy or even Hollande. Macron is a pure product of the neo-liberal system; he doesn't think, he never reflects, he relies on slogans and his speeches often end in emotional, hysterical - almost hitlerian - outbursts. He's basically like Hilary.
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>>9585296
I hear those "neo-liberals" rule France with an Iron Fist? So, it is true. Hark! I daresay, listen hither. That once magnificent Republic now defiled! Plunge, doomed France, into the neoliberal broth and brothel of your own demise!
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>>9585286
Foucault's Pendulum and Illuminatus Trilogy
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I'm reading Nicholas Nickleby at work where I have little else to do and it has gone from repetitive to being in a fucking quagmire. I started reading this book at home and the style honestly wasn't bad like other people may say. He just repeats the "narrator wryly commenting" trick all the time. But I'm at chapter 35 right now and it's obvious the plot is finished and the characters and story are just fucking wallowing on the page, doing nothing.
The writing at this point is like being in quick sand (how I imagine it). You dip your toe in a scene, then suddenly you sink in to a mush of wry narrator comments and those indirect, overly long turns of phrase he throws in. You realise everything will take much longer than you thought. You pull your leg up and somehow it's stuck there. The characters and scenes just don't fucking move.
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>>9585220
That's cause you're a lowbrow and aren't used to good literature.
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>>9585350
>dickens is lowbrow
Just because it doesn't have five bazillion footnotes written by your favourite post-modernist author doesn't make it 'lowbrow' you fucking pseud
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This is probably the most appropriate board to ask this question on, since it involves trying to fully grasp what the author meant by their choice of words (something that is often done when analysing literature). Also, /lit/ is meant to be one of the more intelligent boards on 4chan.
So what is the true meaning of this image?
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>>9584983
>So what is the true meaning of this image?
Memes.
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Last night I secret agent sandwiched your sister
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Last night I shot and ate your sister.
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What am I in for.
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>>9584955
Corn. Lots of corn.
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>>9584955
It's a slog. There are better ways to understand Smith's ideas than subjecting yourself to this.
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If you don't read the whole thing you're a pleb.